Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Police sexual misconduct encompasses a range of acts from less serious noncriminal behaviors to more egregious criminal behaviors including police sexual violence. Victims of sex crimes are often reluctant to report sexual abuse when the offender is a police officer. The study provides empirical data on 771 sex-related arrest cases in years 2005-2008 of 555 sworn officers at 449 nonfederal law enforcement agencies across the United States. The study identifies and describes incidents where officers were arrested for sex crimes through a quantitative content analysis of published newspaper articles and court records. Findings focus on arrested officers and their victims.

Publisher's Statement

This project was supported by Award No. 2011-IJ-CX-0024, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Victims & Offenders on October 21, 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15564886.2014.939798#abstract

Publication Date

10-21-2014

Publication Title

Victims & Offenders

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2014.939798

Start Page No.

117

End Page No.

151

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